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CVE-2021-4095

medium

Description

A NULL pointer dereference was found in the Linux kernel's KVM when dirty ring logging is enabled without an active vCPU context. An unprivileged local attacker on the host may use this flaw to cause a kernel oops condition and thus a denial of service by issuing a KVM_XEN_HVM_SET_ATTR ioctl. This flaw affects Linux kernel versions prior to 5.17-rc1.

References

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/VT6573CGKVK3DU2632VVO5BVM4IU7SBV/

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/QIOQN7JJNN6ABIDGRSTVZA65MHRLMH2Q/

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2022-03-10

Updated: 2023-11-07

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 1.9

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Severity: Low

CVSS v3

Base Score: 5.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Severity: Medium